"Further on is the Bamboo Garden. Ran Haoxuan stopped and raised his hand to point to a tree in front of him, "There are two places where you can walk directly into this and the back door, and you can only walk in by rowing from the lakeside position." Both entrances are equipped with a number of traps, mainly hidden among the tall trees. The central location of the inner part is the place where the young master rests, and there are relatively few organs. ”

Xia Peng looked around carefully and asked, "Can I take a look at the mechanism?"

Ran Hao was slightly stunned, but did not refuse: "It's just a part, it's okay." Some of them are poisonous, and some are too large to be cleaned up. ”

Xia Peng nodded and said, "Thank you." ”

Ran Haoxuan picked up a stone from the grass, shook it in his hand, and threw it hard. The moment it passed over the stone road, several jingo sounds sounded, and the stones flying in mid-air suddenly stopped, and then exploded to pieces. The place where Ran Haoxuan stood was only ten steps away from the place where the stone exploded.

Xia Peng couldn't help but take half a step back, his expression changed slightly: "This ......" He thought that his eyesight was not bad, and the darkness of the sky would certainly have an impact, but he didn't see anything at such a close distance. The power of the mechanism can be imagined.

Ran Haoxuan explained: "Where the first stone passed, the pine tree trunks on both sides were driven into the mechanism, and the wind brought by the stone would touch the mechanism. The trees there completely block out the wind, which does not affect much even in winter. Because I threw the rocks with a lot of force, and the wind I brought up was stronger, I would touch the mechanism. It's okay to walk normally, it's mainly for people who pass quickly. What was shot out was a small hollow bamboo needle with gunpowder in it, and when it was shot at high speed, it would explode if it touched something, and the stone was about four or five stones. There were fifteen trees in that area, and there were seventy-two of these small traps, each of which could be used four times, one shot at a time. ”

Xia Peng asked, "Is there still a mechanism here?"

"Here, do you mean nearby?" Ran Haoxuan looked around, "There aren't too many around here, and then there are some small traps that the young master has set up to prevent rats." There are a lot of them inside, especially what Lord Xia said about coming in through the back door. That's where the most traps are there, and they're dense and powerful. ”

Xia Peng nodded and asked again, "Can I go in and have a look?"

Ran Haoxuan asked, "What do you want to see?" Now it's dark, and it's a little unsafe. ”

Xia Peng said: "I just want to take a look at it at will, if it's really inconvenient, forget it." ”

Ran Hao said: "If the adults want to see it, I can accompany the adults to go in and have a brief look." Most of the mechanisms can't be displayed, but if you're interested, I can explain them to you. ”

Xia Peng bowed: "Then it's tiring." ”

"Your lordship is kind. Ran Haoxuan replied politely, turned to look at Pei'er, "Then you can go back first, the young master should almost come back at this time." Tell the young master, I'll go back a little later. ”

Pei'er nodded, "yes, I see." ”

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"Mo'er. King Qi looked at his son, who had eaten the horse's head for a long time, and suddenly called him.

Zhao Qingyan put down the spoon that was brought to his lips again: "Father called me?"

King Qi pointed to the plate of watermelon and sighed long: "Why are you so hard to eat something?"

Zhao Qingyan looked at the watermelon statue in front of him, and then looked at the hill-like melon skin in front of King Qi: "That, father, with all due respect...... It's not that I'm struggling to eat, maybe you're eating too much?"

King Qi ignored his joke: "Today, you only drank a small half bowl of gruel with no grain of rice in sight...... No, that kind of thing should be said to be rice soup. I only ate a few bites of food for dinner, half a bowl of porridge. I see that you haven't eaten a few pieces of dim sum that Hao Xuan withdrew from the study. You've only been getting better these days, aren't you afraid of getting sick again if you don't eat more?"

Zhao Qingyan lowered his eyes and looked at the watermelon that he really only ate a few bites, and muttered: "It's very uncomfortable to eat more." His voice was small, but it was enough for King Qi to faintly hear it.

King Qi and Princess Qi glanced at each other, and their eyes were worried: "Your body will collapse like this." ”

Zhao Qingyan raised his face and smiled slightly: "Father, don't worry, I know it myself." I'm taking all the medicines I need to drink on time, so there will be no problems. ”

King Qi looked at his smiling face that couldn't see any flaws, so he could only say simply: "You pay more attention to yourself, don't always take your body seriously." ”

Zhao Qingyan's gaze dodged, lowered his gaze, and his eyelashes covered the emotion in his eyes: "I know." ”

Seeing his reaction, King Qi frowned and was about to speak, but was grabbed by Princess Qi's sleeve. Turning her head to look over, Princess Qi shook her head slightly. King Qi sighed secretly, reached out and patted the back of Princess Qi's hand, and nodded lightly to show that he understood.

"Father, mother, I'm a little tired, so I'll go back and rest first. Zhao Qingyan's fingers curled up in his sleeves and loosened, stood up, and bowed slightly.

King Qi looked at him when he heard this, and nodded: "It's okay, go back and rest early." ”

Princess Qi added: "If you are in good health after you get up tomorrow, come and eat with me, I will instruct the kitchen to stew shredded meat porridge for a while." ”

Zhao Qingyan was slightly stunned, pursed her lips, and only lowered her head after a moment and said, "Okay, I will definitely come to accompany my mother tomorrow." He bowed slightly and bowed to leave.

King Qi watched him leave and laughed: "It's good to agree." ”

Princess Qi didn't show too much emotion, and smiled slightly: "Yes, it's good to agree." ”

Jin'er took the big sword and the lantern, chased after him a little slowly, helped Zhao Qingyan before he got into a wheelchair, helped him, and then bent down to pick up the lantern on the ground. Seeing that the young master was still standing there looking at the room she had just left, she couldn't help but call softly: "Young master?"

Zhao Qingyan looked at the faint light from the room in a daze, turned to look at the dark and unmanned courtyard, and muttered, "It's so deserted." ”

Jin'er stood on tiptoe and draped the big coat on his shoulder: "Doesn't the young master like this kind of deserted very much?"

Zhao Qingyan tidied up his collar, tightened his collar a little, and shook his head: "I just like to be quiet, I don't like to be cold, and I don't like it to be as lonely as my residence." ”

Jin'er was slightly stunned and didn't speak.

Zhao Qingyan didn't say anything more, sat down, his eyes were pale: "Go back, calculate the time Xia Peng should also leave." He took the lantern from her hand and held it in his hand, borrowing a faint temperature.

Jin'er nodded lightly and responded, "Okay." Walked up behind him and pushed him slowly back.

"Young Master. Pei'er was just about to enter the study to decorate it with tea, and when she saw Zhao Qingyan coming back, she greeted her with a smile, "I think the young master is coming back soon, so I didn't go over again, okay?"

Zhao Qingyan smiled and patted her head: "Isn't it just that you are greedy for fun and don't want to go over? ”

Pei'er pouted: "It's not a reason, Brother Ran said that he was a little tired, so he went back to rest first, please come over and help the young master pour tea and get snacks, so I came back and waited." ”

Zhao Qingyan responded with a smile: "Okay, I blame you." ”

Pei'er stiffened her face, but she couldn't help but smile: "I don't dare to let the young master say that, just think I'm lazy." What snack do you want? I'll get it. ”

Zhao Qingyan looked at the hourglass and groaned: "Forget it, don't take it, I'll go back to the room." ”

Pei'er also followed his gaze and looked at the hour, blinking: "So early?"

Zhao Qingyan smiled faintly: "I promised my mother to go over for breakfast tomorrow, and I have to get up early, so let's rest early today." ”

Pei'er tilted her head: "Then I'll go get hot water, Sister Jin'er will help the young master change his clothes first, right?"

Jin'er nodded: "You go quickly." ”

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"My lord, have you found anything?" A group of guards saw Xia Peng come out and hurriedly surrounded him.

Xia Peng shook his head: "I can't find anything valuable, but I can basically rule out the suspicion of the little prince and the guard Ran this time." ”

"Why?"

Xia Peng glanced at the guard who posted the article, and then replied: "The little prince's dominant hand does seem to be his left hand, because I saw him carve out a horse with his left hand, a very fine horse. And he didn't have time to steal. There is also Ran Haoxuan, either it's not him, or he can endure it. ”

"Can you bear it?" several guards looked at each other, a little puzzled.

Xia Peng patted his right shoulder: "The Tsing Yi thief was indeed injured, but I bumped Ran Haoxuan's shoulder, he looked as usual, and he didn't react because of the pain." So, I judged that he was not injured. ”

The little guard next to him couldn't help laughing: "The adult hit him in order to prove that he was not a thief in Tsing Yi?"

Xia Peng was stunned: "Is it that funny?"

Several of the guards held back their laughter and didn't speak, only one of the guards spoke out helplessly: "It's not funny, but adults always express the idea of 'I'm doubting you'." There's certainly nothing wrong with what adults do, but it's always a little uncomfortable. ”

Xia Peng pursed her lips and didn't speak.

Seeing that the guard who spoke was cold, he hurriedly changed the topic: "Is that the suspicion of the little prince and the Ran guard already ruled out?"

Xia Peng hesitated for a moment and nodded.

The guard let out a sigh of relief, and the rest of the guards cheered.

Xia Peng looked at them in surprise, but could only smile helplessly: "Let's go, go back and see if the Tsing Yi thief has left any flaws." ”

As they left, the leaves of the locust tree next to them moved slightly, and a man in gray stood up.

Gong Wei touched his chin, his body swayed up and down with the branches swaying up and down, and his eyes were full of smiles: "Tsk, it looks like I'm late and missed a good show." ”

Reach out and pull off the leaves that have scraped your cheeks, tear them apart, and crush them with your fingertips. He looked at the dark green thing on his fingertips, and muttered to himself in confusion: "I don't have much time left, should I have a fun time with the past?" ”

The wind of the summer night blew the leaves and rustled, blowing Gong Wei's hair up and falling back again, and Gong Wei's sigh disappeared with the gust of wind into the dark night that had begun to become quiet: "Sure enough, you still can't go, right?"

The gray corners of the clothes appeared in the gaps in the leaves for a moment, and then disappeared.

The short conversation and hustle and bustle in the alley at the back door of the Qi Palace's mansion were completely gone, and the unique liveliness of Bianliang City at night was not conveyed here at all, and it was so cold and lifeless.